Improvement in slate-pencil holders



@met @Mira EDWARD G. WARD. OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 95,859, dated October 12, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLATE-PENCIL HOLDERS.

Th Schedule referred to in these Lettera Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD G. WARD, of Hoboken, in theA county ot' Hudson,.andg State of New Jersey,

have invented a new and improved PeneibHolder At tachment for Slates, and other purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others' skilled in the art to make and use the sam'e, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to a new and useful manner of preserving and protecting a slate-pencil from being lost or broken, all of which will be understood from the following, reference being had to the acmpanying drawings, in which-.-

Figure l represents a view of a school-slate, with lmy slate-pencil attachment applied.

Figure 2,- a section of the saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding Darts.

The letter a represents a stout India-rubber bund, set in a mortise inthe frame-of the slate.

The top of the slate-frame is grooved or gnttered, so as to hold and protect the slate-pencil from slipping sidewise, while the India-rubber band t will hold the pencil snug and rm in its place.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and 'desire to Isecure by Let-l ters Patent, is-

Attaching the pencil to the slateby means of the elastic-band a, passing through a mortise in the slate- 'rame, and beneath which, in the groove formed in the edge of the frame, the pencil is placed, as herein shown and described.

The above specilcation of my invention signed by me, this 9th day of March, 1868.

EDWD. G. WARD.

Witnesses WM. F. MCNA'MARA. ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

